Stitch Speed

[ScreenPrinter123]

What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

[inkman996]

What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.

[Doug B]

  We have older Tajimas and run 600 flats and hats.

[ScreenPrinter123]

What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.

That's funny you say that.  One reason I was asking this is because I am at the beginning of a 400 piece run of caps with 10,000 stitches and had bumped the speed up from 650 to 700.  Everything looked good but after two rounds but I wanted to see if others have run there caps faster with success.  With 6 heads I will be at this for a while so any time saved without pushing the machine too hard would be helfpful.

[stitches4815]

I run ours 650-700 depending on the cap.  Flats I run at 850.

[inkman996]

What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.

That's funny you say that.  One reason I was asking this is because I am at the beginning of a 400 piece run of caps with 10,000 stitches and had bumped the speed up from 650 to 700.  Everything looked good but after two rounds but I wanted to see if others have run there caps faster with success.  With 6 heads I will be at this for a while so any time saved without pushing the machine too hard would be helfpful.

Our machines are later 90's models so 700 is about the max for us on caps and only certain designs. But when you go to the tradeshows the late model barudans seem to run caps at 1,000 easily, I am sure they are cherry picked caps but from what I hear Barudans are the best at caps in the business. Not sure on other brands tho.

I would bump up your speed and if everything looks good and needles are not breaking run with it.

[GraphicDisorder]

We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally. 

[ScreenPrinter123]

We were wanting a recent model used Barudan but got tired of waiting and picked up a 2006 Tajima.  We don't do a lot of embroidery but it has been nice to be able to stop outsourcing it.  I will see if I can increase it any more.

That is awesome to be sewing at that speed on caps Brandt.  Money well spent on your Barudan if I say so myself.

[GraphicDisorder]

We were wanting a recent model used Barudan but got tired of waiting and picked up a 2006 Tajima.  We don't do a lot of embroidery but it has been nice to be able to stop outsourcing it.  I will see if I can increase it any more.

That is awesome to be sewing at that speed on caps Brandt.  Money well spent on your Barudan if I say so myself.

It's enough I want to sell my SWFs and replace it with more Barudans for sure.  But we are in a GOOD place right now with number of machines so we can be real felxiable with it all, we have cut a general 2-3 week time line to more like 1.5 week turn on the high side since having it.  It's blowing through work. 

[alan802]

750 on flats and 650-700 on caps on old Tajimas.

[tancehughes]

By no means are we a good example to go by since we are so new to embroidery, but we are running caps at 650 and flats at 850. It's been really nice to run all of our embroidery ourselves and we are learning so much every day as we keep the thing running all day every day. I just wish we knew so much more!

We are running a 2000 model Tajima 4 head

[beanie357]

New tajimas
900-950 flats depending on jumps and trims
700 hats

[Admiral]

flats
860-960 depending on design

hats
680-760 depending on design

[Denis Kolar]

650 on hats and around 700-750 on flats.

No rush

[Homer]

wow, we are at 850-920 on everything...mainly due to I don't have a clue what I'm doing..so do it faster!! haha

toyota 850, 1997 model too....